Speak up now against our deprivation of civil rightsWhen: Thursday 27 May 2004
Time: 9am
Where: Supreme Court of NSW
Queens Square (Phillip Street) Sydney
On 27 May 2004 Izhar Haque will be applying for bail to the NSW Supreme Court. Izhar is a third year medical student who is presently languishing in isolation, with no access to legal or medical support, at Goulburn High Risk Maximum Security jail.
Izhar is one of the new victims of Australia's draconian civil liberties deprivation laws. He has been accused of visiting a group that was not proscribed until ten months after Izhar's alleged visit.
Izhar's friends describe him as a placid, loving, caring person who was studying medicine to save lives. Izhar's life has come to a halt. Your loved ones could be next on the government's hit list.
Protest against our 'Australian Guantanamo Bay Camp' and against the erosion of our civil rights. Bring signs of protest with slogans like "Free Izhar", 'We demand our Civil Rights', 'Close Goulburn's HRMU', 'End to Draconian Laws', and so on.
Remember: Supreme Court Building, Queens Square, 9:00 AM Thursday 27th May 2004.
For further information contact Kaysar Trad at kt@speednet.com.au
Please post this broadly.
In Other Developments:
Lashkar-e-Tayiba - Blow Up or Beat Up
Pakistani militant group Lashkar-e-Tayiba has been branded a terrorist organisation by Australia, the US and Pakistan. It's been accused of being part of the al-Qa'ida network and of planning attacks in Australia.
Guantanamo detainee David Hicks and French terror suspect Willie Brigitte are alleged to have trained with the group in Pakistan. Tonight, the first interview with Lashkar-e-Tayiba spokesman, Yahya Mujihad, since the group was banned in Pakistan over two years ago. The interview was conducted by Pakistani author and journalist, Amir Rana. Melanie Morrison reports.
Lashkar-eTayiba REPORTER: Melanie Morrison
These are some of the few pictures the world has seen of Lashkar-e-Tayiba, a shadowy military group in Pakistan and Kashmir. A number of Australians have journeyed to Pakistan to train with Lashkar-e-Tayiba. Several are now in jail, accused of terrorist affiliations. Last week Yahya Mujihad former Lashkar-e-Tayiba spokesman and currently with the offshoot organisation Jamat-u-Dawah, gave this rare interview to Dateline.
YAHYA MUJIHAD, FORMER LASHKAR-E-TAYIBA SPOKESMAN (Translation): Even when I was the spokesperson for Lashkar-e-Tayiba I stressed that the organisation was not involved in activities, including international activities we are limited to Pakistan only in legal activities.
That's in stark contrast with Australian Government accusations that Lashkar-e-Tayiba sponsors terrorism here. Yahya Mujihad denies it sends its members overseas.
YAHYA MUJIHAD, (Translation): I want to clearly tell you we do not have our network in the Western world including Europe and America. It is just propaganda of India. Instead of listening to the Western propaganda we need to listen to the facts, we are quite confident that if you go to any court of justice we can prove that we do not have any sort of involvement.
That court of justice could be in Australia. Under our new terrorism laws member ship of Lashkar-e-Tayiba can land you in jail. Young medical student Izhar ul-Haque, currently in Goulburn Supermax prison faces charges for training with the group for 20 days. David Hicks, now imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay is also alleged to have trained with Lashkar-e-Tayiba. French terror suspect Willie Brigitte was accused of planning attacks in Australia under instructions of Lashkar-e-Tayiba handler Faheem Lodhi. Faheem Lodhi is awaiting trial in Goulburn's high security prison.
YAHYA MUJIHAD, (Translation): Let me tell you we have no reason to send people to Australia and to fight there, why should we do that? We do not believe in terrorism and we do not act on that principle. We consider ourselves Muslims and Muslims do not approve of the killing of innocent people. I told you that we focus on Pakistan and we focus on issues of Pakistan, there is no room for people who come from outside and it's not possible to go outside and provide training to people.
Lashkar-e-Tayiba was founded in 1990 to wage an Islamic war in the Himalayan province of Kashmir. It has been accused of scores of atrocities against India, including the bombing of the Indian parliament in 2001.
YAHYA MUJIHAD, (Translation): It's purely a Kashmiri organisation and that is their fundamental human right to fight for freedom and achieve their objectives. It is belief that Kashmir should have sovereignty and independence and we extend our support for their struggle.
Many of the world's Islamic terror groups were born here in Afghanistan during the jihad against the Soviet occupation. From here fighters went on to form terrorist cells in South and South-east Asia. US intelligence agencies argue that Lashkar-e-Tayiba has strong links with al-Qa'ida, but former spaitionperson, Yahya Mujihad is equally adamant that this is not the case.
YAHYA MUJIHAD, (Translation): Let me tell you during the Afghan Jihad there used to be Arab individuals and people from all walks of like, but we were not represented there as an organisation. So far as the allegations of our connection with al-Qa'ida are concerned, it is the propaganda of India. You should look at the abuses in Kashmir. I think the world has to look into reality.
The battle for Kashmir is fundamental to how Pakistanis see themselves. Even when President Pervez Musharraf band Lashkar-e-Tayiba and a number of other Pakistani militant groups he pledged to continue the struggle for Kashmir.
PERVEZ MUSHARRAF, PAKISTANI PRESIDENT (Translation): Kashmir runs in our blood. No Pakistan can break links with Kashmir. The whole world knows this, all Pakistanis know this.
The issue is so much in the blood of Pakistanis that in an interview with Dateline last month the president, himself, forgot the group was banned.
PERVEZ MUSHARRAF: Lashkar-e-Tayiba has not been banned. Lashkar-e-Tayiba is not threatening anybody. Who has told you that they are threatening anybody? It is Jaish-e-Muhammed that has threatened, and Jaish-e-Muhammed is banned.
MARK DAVIS: I might clarify that, it might be a pronunciation problem of mine, Lashkar-e-Tayiba this is not a banned...
PERVEZ MUSHARRAF: No, no, no. Certainly this is not a banned organisation.
MARK DAVIS: You put them on a watched list, have you?
PERVEZ MUSHARRAF: Yes, yes.
Despite being outlawed, official leniency has allowed Lashkar-e-Tayiba to continue under new names. Mayiya, a Lashkar-e-Tayiba commando and MBA graduate claims he is just one of hundreds of thousands of registered members. He has recently returned from Jihad in Kashmir.
MAYIYA, LASHKAR-E-TAYIBA COMMANDO (Translation): If the Pakistan government is putting pressure on us that is because of the pressure they are subjected to by America.
To become a commando fighting on the Kashmir border he under went three stages of training.
MAYIYA, (Translation): The basic training goes for one month, for the special training you undergo two months of exercises and for the commando stage it's an additional six months training.
Despite allegations that Lashkar-e-Tayiba continues to act as a training organisation for al-Qa'ida, spokesman Yahya Mujihad claims the training camps have now been shut down.
YAHYA MUJIHAD, (Translation): It's alleged that there is training centre 38km from Lahore, but how is that? It is ridiculous to have it right under their noses when Pakistan has gone as far as the mountains to apprehend people. And even in the mountains Pakistan has dismantled the training centres so how is this possible?
Despite his protestations of innocence, Lashkar-e-Tayiba is reportedly still recruiting, but it remains to be seen whether it's just for Kashmir or beyond.
By Justice Action 26 May 04
GKCNN: (Tanslation): It does not remain to be seen!
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Howard gov't and media talks up terror
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Australian corporate media? Brigitte allegations?
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Brigitte release 'imminent for lack of evidence': lawyer
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Absence of faith in the Australian Gov't
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Did 'Jihad Jack' train at GI boot camp?
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Big Bang Theory, ASIO
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Australian Corruption: Absence in Absentia
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Lawyer said Govt made Brigitte a scapegoat
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Brigitte planned to blow up the Daily Terror
In bright red letters with an X marks the spot it appeared to be right under Campbell Reid's office.
Meet Melanie Brown the Sydney woman who married the Daily Terror? Meet Melanie Brown, the Sydney woman who wed Willie Brigitte -- the tourist, [and now scapegoat for the Coalition of the Killing's resource war's in the Middle East], accused of helping mastermind a terrorist attack in Australia, according to ASIO [an Australian government terrorist organisation], and the DAILY TERROR.
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How the Daily Telegraph seduced an Aussie public!
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ASIO: No responsibility!
Blick: "Because these searches are carried out with the cooperation of police forces, both AFP [Australian Federal Police] and state police, it's not always entirely clear which members of the team ... are those supposed to have done the things which people complain about," he said.
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After a war waged by the U.S. military against Vietnam which took the lives of more than 3 million Vietnamese people and more than 58,000 GIs, the U.S. finally withdrew in 1975. It had suffered its first official major military defeat by a united people struggle led by the Vietnamese, along with a mass U.S. anti-war movement.
Australian fascist laws ready as scapegoat talks
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Fascist wants more power for ASIO
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THE DAILY TERROR and ASIO in Fairyland!
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Mahathir offers to go out with a bang
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Keep the bastards honest: Publicity keeps an eye on ethics?
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Red paper classes Australia as terrorist suspects
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UK Reid, Blair and the reichstag London threat!
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Middle Eastern: Specific Legislation
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Howard defends terror alert
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Carr backs Fed Govt's terror alert
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NSW Police Force may get 'special powers'
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When Johnny comes marching home again: 'hoorah hoorah'
Posted on the Resistance web page Bronwyn Powell, an organiser of the youth-led mobilisation told Green Left weekly that "in the face of attacks on civil liberties, it is unfortunate that some union officials have felt they need to submit. It could set a negative precedent for upholding the hard-won right to demonstrate in the street."
Give peace a chance
PIERS AKERMAN DT 28 Nov 02: JUSTICE John Dowd should be removed from the bench. His crime? Stupidity. In a breath-taking display of hand-wringing sanctimonious morality, Dowd has condemned the State and Federal Governments' anti-terrorism measures, claiming they erode rights and give encouragement to oppressive regimes.
The scavengers of terror
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